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Adjusting Parenting Roles and Work Expectations Among Women With Children During COVID-19
(2023)This study explores mothers’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic with a focus on stressors, parenting roles, and work expectations. Qualitative analysis of open-ended interviews with a diverse group of 44 mothers in ... -
Transportation Curriculum with Culturally Responsive Teaching: Lessons Learned from Pre-Service Teachers and Future Transportation Workforce
(2023)With K-12 students from diverse social and cultural backgrounds in the classroom today, it is crucial to develop a more inclusive and socially diverse curriculum, especially in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics ... -
“Defund” or “Refund” the Police?: City Council Responsiveness to the Black Lives Matter Protests
(2023)In this research note, we investigate the degree to which local governments reduced or expanded the budgets of police departments in the aftermath of the nation-wide protests organized by the Black Lives Matter ... -
The “Police Personality”: Is it Real?
(2023)Much research has discussed the “police personality.” Yet, it is still unclear what particular traits make up the police personality—or whether it exists at all. This can be partially attributed to the limited availability ... -
The Role of Culture in the Justification and Perpetuation of Domestic Violence: The Perspectives of Service Providers in Kyrgyzstan
(2023)The study explores the perspectives of service providers on cultural and social reasons used to justify domestic violence in Kyrgyzstan. Results indicate that cultural norms, notably patriarchal customs, immense pressure ... -
Music Reading for Students with Learning Disabilities
(2023-11)As a career cello pedagogue and as a certified dyslexia instructor, I have been sought out by many string teachers for insights into how to help their students who struggle with music reading. Over time, I observed that ... -
Do Family Firms Issue More Readable Annual Reports? Evidence From the United States
(2023)Using a sample of 22,442 firm-year observations for 3,721 U.S. listed firms, we show that family firms, on average, issue annual reports with higher readability than non-family firms. Higher readability could occur due to ... -
Innovating Teaching Practice Through Professional Learning Communities: Determining Knowledge Sharing and Program Value
(2023)The Professional Learning Community (PLC) model has been used to help faculty develop innovative teaching practices and diffuse effective strategies and resources throughout K-12 schools. Yet, whether and how PLCs influence ... -
Work and the public understanding of science
(2023)This study examines whether engaging in science work and work that is substantively complex (e.g. requiring independent thought and judgment) is related to interest in science, science knowledge, and confidence in the ... -
Co-Design with Patients for Improving Patient Safety: Strategies, Barriers and pitfalls
(2023)What happens when “frontline” workers are patients and family members performing health-related tasks? As more and more complex healthcare tasks are performed by patients and family members, and more emphasis is placed on ... -
Safety and Academic Outcomes of College Campus-Based Advocacy Services
(2023)Intimate partner violence (IPV), sexual assault, and stalking are consequential public health and safety issues with wide reaching impacts on emerging adults, including those on college campuses in the United States. In ... -
A Support Vector Machine Based Cure Rate Model For Interval Censored Data
(2022-08-22)The mixture cure rate model is the most commonly used cure rate model in the literature. In the context of mixture cure rate model, the standard approach to model the effect of covariates on the cured or uncured probability ... -
Incorporating Job Competition and Matching to an Indicator-Based Transportation Equity Analysis for Auto and Transit in Dallas-Fort Worth Area
(SAGE, 2023-05-16)Transportation equity is a vital but vague issue for planners and engineers in the United States, where mobility-based transportation planning has triggered the disproportionate distribution of benefits and burdens in the ... -
Electrical Resistivity Imaging for Identifying Critical Sulfate Concentration Zones Along Highways
(SAGE, 2023-05-15)Assessing sulfate concentration levels and their distributions within road alignments is crucial for the design of highway projects. Sulfate minerals in soils react with calcium-based additives, leading to sulfate-induced ... -
Histological Analysis of Regenerative Properties in Human Glenoid Labral Regions
(SAGE, 2023-05-26)Background: The healing capacity of the human glenoid labrum varies by tear location. Current evidence suggests that the healing capacity of meniscal and cartilage injuries relates to cellular composition and vascularity. ... -
Reducing Officer-Involved Deaths of Civilians in Urban Areas: Forecasting the Effects of Departmental Policies
(SAGE, 2023-04-26)Recent police-involved deaths of Black civilians have sparked public outcry and demand for police reforms. However, many departmental policies intended to reduce the lethal use-of-force by police officers lack empirical ... -
Assignment Negotiation: Critical Race Theory and Educational Leadership Preparation Program
(SAGE, 2023-05-15)The current tensions around racism in public schooling prompted Dr. Edwards, an assistant professor in educational leadership and policy studies, to teach critical race theory and assign a racism audit for doctoral students ... -
Strategic monitoring improves prospective memory: A meta-analysis
(SAGE, 2023-02-23)Monitoring the environment for target events that trigger prospective memory (PM) retrieval requires cognitive resources, reflected by costs to ongoing task performance (i.e., worse accuracy and/or slower response times). ... -
A Multisite Qualitative Analysis of Perceived Roles in Medication Safety: Older Adults’ Perspectives
(SAGE, 2023)Older adults and caregivers play an essential role in medication safety; however, self-perception of their and health professionals’ roles in medication safety is not well-understood. The objective of our study was to ... -
Social Cognitive Theory, Driving Cessation, and Alternative Transportation in Later Life
(SAGE, 2023-05-25)Having viable alternative transportation options could help individuals stop driving when appropriate. This study employs the Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) to understand the barriers and facilitators of alternative ...